A demonstration of the use of an unfashioned stone as axe to chop tree and anthill; the process of preliminary shaping by knapping is shown. Two men go to a quarry site where a boomerang is used to dig in search of a suitable flake. A blank is made by trimming to the flake to a rough shape with a hammerstone. The edge of the blank is then ground on a boulder. Some shaping by knapping is done and the edge is further ground. The ground edge axe head is then mounted into a wooden handle, which has been trimmed with a stone-bladed adze (partardi) and split at one end with a wedge. Gum from a bloodwood tree is ground on stone with saliva and water; and used to seal the axe head into a split. Spinifex gum (palya) is heated and applied to the mounting; hair string is used as a binding and is worked into the gum with a fire stick. The handle is painted with ochre mixed with water and the completed axe is tested on a tree trunk